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Amazon.com's Best of 1999This nine-piece Montreal collective sketches large-scale sonic landscapes using everything from strings to samples. Exceedingly plush and atmospheric, Slow Riot funnels a dramatic undercurrent through their music, adding an undeniably cinematic quality--especially in a section featuring the paranoid rants
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
This nine-piece Montreal collective sketches large-scale sonic landscapes using everything from strings to samples. Exceedingly plush and atmospheric, Slow Riot funnels a dramatic undercurrent through their music, adding an undeniably cinematic quality--especially in a section featuring the paranoid rants of a street person. The result is a grand and swirling melange with a sweeping scope and an elevating sense of tension. --S. Duda
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada may last only half an hour, but in that time it imparts an internal experience akin to that of watching a cast-of-thousands Hollywood epic. Godspeed You Black Emperor! are a Montreal-based nine-piece ensemble that uses massed strings, ringing electric guitars, and martial drums to evoke endless vistas and stir strong emotions. "Moya" opens with a solemn drone overlaid with resonant violin overtones, then builds to a crashing, unapologetically melodramatic climax. The CD's second (and final) selection, "Blaise Bailey Finegan III," is more ambitious. Like a director who grabs his audience's tear ducts with both fists, the group inserts field recordings of a ranting paranoiac between sweeping spaghetti-Western passages that rise to exhilarating multiple crescendos, then fall away to ghostly, echoed violins. --Bill Meyer
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Track listing1. Moya
2. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
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Music to get lost in.
I had reason to be excited and wasn't dissapointed at all. It is nothing less than a masterpiece..orhestral and ambient but never boring, you will get lost in this album. In fact, its so good I make a point of not listening to it too often; I want it to always be a pleasure to listen to. There are two kinds of good music, the type that makes you want to sing along, and the (albeit rarer)type that stuns you into silence...this is the latter.
Rating : 10/10
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Music for wandering the desert too (while avoiding bandits, wild animals and anarchistic biker gangs).
Rating : 10/10